Point of No Return: Jewish Refugees from Arab and Muslim Countries

 It is heartening to listen to voices such as that of Haidar Muften Jarallah, writing in the Arabic news medium Elaph . Jarallah gives a fac...

"Secret" Israeli-Moroccan business is increasingly visible, despite the North African country sharing no official relations with ...

  A Jew has been named as Tunisian Tourism minister. This is not the first time that Rene Trabelsi has been nominated, but his appointment w...

 With thanks: Freddy Update: Click here   to see the photos taken in the Sadr City Jewish cemetery. If you run your mouse over a particul...

 Herzl St in the Belgrade suburb of Zemun    A little-known Sephardi rabbi in a Balkan neighbourhood was the precursor of Theodor Herzl...

While popular Sephardi culture is burgeoning in Israel, Sephardi literature and philosophy has been neglected. Moshe Amar has countered this...

 There is a worrying trend in the West to treat Jews as  'whites' and not members of an ethnic minority. As a result, they can neve...

For some weeks now, governments and opinion-formers have been waiting with baited breath for President Donald Trump to unveil his peace plan...

For Jews in Iraq, a wolf's tooth was a popular good luck charm. It inspired Carol Isaacs, an artist and musician, to produce an original...

In a sign of increasingly warm relations between Israel and the Gulf States, the Israeli national anthem was played in Abu Dhabi at an inter...

Update: friends and admirers will gather at 10 am on Sunday 4 November at Golders Green Crematorium, Hoop Lane, London NW11 to pay their re...

The visit of Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Sultanate of Oman may have taken much of the western media by surprise. ...

The fate of ancient Jewish archives rescued from war-torn Iraq is at a crossroads. Lyn Julius reports in Jewish Renaissance (October 2018) ...

In Fez you can visit the house where Maimonides lived for a short while on the run from fundamentalists in his native Cordoba. Today, the ho...

 One of the foremost experts on the language of Jews in the medieval Arabic-speaking world is a 99-year Hungarian-born Jew, Joshua Blau. Em...